Head of Development

Skills
Analytical SkillsEngineeringLeadershipManagementTrading
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Deep trading and brokerage expertise across CFDs forex equities ETFs and crypto including order flow market data and exchange or liquidity connectivity such as FIX
  • Hands-on experience designing building and shipping AI or LLM based systems to production
  • Strong hands-on software development background with active code writing and code review experience
  • Proven track record managing multiple engineering teams simultaneously including engineering managers and tech leads
  • Experience operating within a regulated financial services environment such as CySEC FCA or equivalent
  • Demonstrated ownership of large-scale high-availability low-latency production systems

Nice to have

  • Brokerage background
  • Exchange platform exposure
  • AWS experience
  • Kubernetes knowledge
  • Remote leadership

Day to day

  • Lead and grow multiple engineering teams across trading banking social and platform domains.
  • Own end-to-end delivery including architecture roadmap execution release cadence and production reliability.
  • Stay hands-on by reviewing designs and code setting technical standards and contributing on critical paths.
  • Drive AI initiatives from prototype to production for product features personalization market analysis and automation.
  • Ensure systems satisfy regulatory security resilience scalability and cloud cost efficiency needs in a licensed brokerage environment.